LETTER: Shades of ancient Egypt in Trump's behavior

Wednesday

Nov 29, 2017 at 3:01 AM

Things that have been happening with this administration have been strangely reminiscent of goings-on I learned about in my Egyptian art history class in college.

Whenever a recently or long dead pharaoh fell out of favor with the new pharaoh, the new guy would have all likenesses or references of the past ruler obliterated from stone carvings, hieroglyphs, etc. with chisel and hammer. Maybe that former pharaoh worshiped the "wrong" god and for whatever reason fell out of favor with the new ruler. So, the new guy felt obligated to destroy all images or references to the prior ruler.

I see that today with Trump. He seems hell-bent on obliterating any reference to anything Obama did during his tenure. He really hasn't gone out of his way to eliminate past Republican presidents' works. In fact, he rarely mentions them at all. Perhaps he wants people to remember only him. He is so self-possessed with his own immortality that I wonder if he will eliminate the official portrait of Obama anywhere it might be found. His animus for his immediate predecessor is almost obsessive.

And I can only imagine when he is replaced how the next president will do the same to him and the furor he will raise on social media when references to his "kingdom" are wiped off of the face of the planet.